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Rover’s Home Game Newsletter
18 April 2015
RENMARK v WAIKERIE - Rd 1
PRESIDENT DAVE SAYS:
A GRADE - John Persinos:
Welcome to the 2015 season with our first game at home versus Waikerie.
Hello Supporters welcome back to
the footy!
We have had a few changes with myself taking over from Jack as President and
new committee members this season in Carly Farr, Alan Marshall, Peter Butterworth and Helen Leckie joining the team as well as Tracy Clifford, Trev Gill,
Schooner Tillett, Kym Gillard and Michael Schultze returning.
I would like to thank Jack and the outgoing committee members for their commitment to the Club; Jack has been fantastic with helping me with the day to day football running and I thank him for that.
You will see quite a few changes in the club this season with new tables and
chairs going in and the new honour board has been fitted. In the coming weeks,
we will have the much awaited trophy cabinet being installed.
Our motto this year is “Commitment, Pride and Respect”. All the players have
come on board and are making a fantastic commitment to preseason, and we are
looking forward to a great year!
As far as new recruits, I will let our club senior coach, John Persinos, fill you in on
the details, but all is looking good for an awesome year on and off the field.
Tonight we have the Players Auction, so get together & form a syndicate or just
buy a lot on your own. The groups are up on the bar notice board & as you will ,
there is a fantastic compilation of our A, B & U18 players.
Meals are now available on Thursday and Saturday home games, so come and
have a feed and be part of this great footy club.
Good luck to all teams and may the Rovers come through.
Cheers Birchy
Today we commence our journey
for 2015, new challenges, new
faces on and off the field and I
hope you’re ready to ride the high
& lows of a football season with us.
We welcome all new players and
their families to the Renmark
Rovers FC, & hope you enjoy your
involvement with our great club.
In the off season our committee
has been busy redecorating with
new table and chairs and new
honour board which all looks good
and is just the start of the
upgrades.
Another off season out the way,
recruitment and pre-season
complete, check; now let the fun
begin.
Today we play the Waikerie FC
who have successfully been
playing finals consistently across
all grades, with their A grade
currently the reigning premiers and
favourites for 2015; nothing better
than a test like this to see where
we’re at as a team.
All the best to the coaches and
players for the 2015 season.
Go Rovers!
Pers.
NEXT WEEK:
HOME
2014 B Grade Premiership Team
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NORTH
Brenton (BJ) Jenke has taken over as team manager
this year, while former North Adelaide player, junior
Welcome all supporters and especially our Sponsors to coach and football director Bruce Gehling will be
our first game for season 2015. After a successful 2014 assistant coach. Thanks to all the other parents who
finishing Premiers for the season, the boys are raring to have also lent their support to the group for 2015.
go & to continue the success for this year.
Last week we had a trial game against Berri under 18s
As a team we have managed to keep our Premiership and enjoyed a social trip home after a solid hit out. Five
side together. We have picked up some new players
boys swam across the Murray and back as part of their
who have moved to the area and the return of several rehab, while someone else forgot the meat for the
old faces in Will Carr, Ben Townsend and Aaron
campsite barbecue. Fortunately Narissa Lellmann
Tripney , all returning after a year at Paringa. Will Carr saved the day!
is having a great pre season and really looking at
We welcome Damien Stevens and his U18 Magpies to
pushing for an A Grade berth at some stage.
the kennel today and expect a tough game.
Matt Wilson has moved across from the river and looks
a really good goal sneak; he will work great along side We trust all clubs will be able to field competitive under
18 units this year and we look forward to seeing many
our biggest recruit in Craig “Burgers” Seekamp. Craig
is returning from a couple of years off, but his strength boys across the region progress through to A grade
and West Adelaide ranks as the season unfolds.
and experience is going to be invaluable to our side.
Jarryd Collinson has returned too and is looking to
cement a spot in the team. We have also picked up
All the best to all other coaches within the Rovers
Jake Blackley who is super fit and ready to go.
camp, especially Johnny Persinos who has done a
power of work assembling and preparing the A grade
Welcome to all the other new faces who will line up in
the A Grade today, good luck and enjoy the challenge line up.
of working with your new team mates.
Jacko
Facing up to Waikerie in the first game for the year is
ideal for us, as it will give us a really good idea for
where we are at as a playing group, We welcome the
challenge and I know we are ready to fire!
B GRADE - Matt Martinson
Cheers,
Cricket
UNDER 15 - Pete Morath
Welcome all to season 2015 and here’s hoping we can
all make it a successful one for the Renmark Rovers.
This year we look like having reasonable numbers for
our U/15 brigade, and I have been quite pleased with
the attendance and effort from all involved,; not to say I
won’t be eyeing off some of Darran’s guns for a call up
UNDER 18—Tim Jackson
if required! The boys have all shown a determined and
The boys raring to go for 2015!
disciplined effort to date and will need to continue to do
Numbers for under 18s have been pleasing after a slow so as we try to emulate the previous efforts of our
U/15 teams of the past. We appear to have a good mix
start.
of size, experience and skill, as well as a new group of
Reverting to Monday night trainings where the
‘up and comers’ that are adapting well, keen to learn
and apply themselves. I’m confident that if our boys
under 18s train alone has been popular with the
can take the traits they have shown on the training
players and we will continue this throughout the seatrack into a game situation, we are going to be
son. All grades will train on Thursday nights, but the
competitive at all times. I encourage you all to keep an
plan is for the under 18s to split after the initial skills
eye on these guys!
warm up and train as a squad.
All the best to all grades today!
The team will be named at the end of Thursday night’s
training. We will always name emergencies just in case Pete
there is a last call up to the A grade.
Charlie Wiese and Riley Walter have been named
co-captains for the year. Brandon Williss, Roley Boon,
Mitchell Jenke and Ben Pater make up the rest of the
leadership group. It is great to see Willy back out on
the training track. He has had a lot trouble with his
knees over the past two years, not to mention the
serious head injury he sustained in a dinghy accident
last year that kept him sidelined for the whole season.
UNDER 13 - Darran Bright
The 2015 season is upon us and everyone involved is
pumped.
The kids have been training the house down for the last
6 weeks and ready to go.
We have plenty of numbers which certainly sets the
footy club up in a strong position into the future.
The group have been fantastic and I am sure they will
give their all on match day.
Name
Nickname
Pete Morath
Rat
Age
43
So get to the footy early and watch the next generation
of Rovers.
Occupation
Cheers Daz
Marital Status
Regional Vineyard Manager for
Kingston Vineyards
Very happily married to Tash
Children
Tayce(17), Rom(16), Kel (14)
AFL Team
Collingwood
Fave Movies
Fave Food
Mad Max II, Two Hands
Spit roast Goat, Pers calls it
lamb?!
Shouldn’t say it, but probably
beer!
My coaches were all people that
I respected and learnt a lot of
football and life experiences
from and I would like to think I
can impart some of this back
onto our youth. Also a good
way to keep an eye on my son’s
mates!
I was privileged to watch a recent SAPSSA game in
which a lot of the guys where involved and they are
certainly playing an exciting brand of football .
Fave Drink
Why do you want to
coach kids?
Name
Nickname
Age
Occupation
Marital Status
Children
AFL Team
Fave Movies
Fave Food
Fave Drink
Why do you want to
coach kids?
Summarise your footy
career
Darran Bright
Brighty
47
Electrician
Larissa
Lily, 13 and Josh, 11
Crows
Mad Max
Fish
Beer
There is never a dull moment,
and being pushed along by their
love of the game & development.
Started my junior days in the
south east with the seaside
town of Kingston and also
played senior footy there until
moving to Broken Hill where I
played for another 10 years. I
finished up at 36 years of age
with a couple of premier ships
with South Broken Hill. I
enjoyed the social side of footy
and have met some great
people in my travels. Enjoying
training certainly helped in my
longevity.
Summarise your footy
career
Played junior footy at Swan Hill
enjoying several premierships at
U17 level before progressing to
senior level. Left for Uni and played
a couple of seasons with Redan in
the Ballarat Football league before
returning to CMFL to win a premiership with Woorinen before moving
to Tooleybuc to work and play and
eventually coach at senior level for 2
seasons, competitive but no
cup. Represented CMFL on several
occasions. Moved to Wagga/
Gundagai in 1998 and played a few
seasons including another premiership with Wagga Tigers. Went on to
play the next few seasons for
Cootamundra and then onto Marrar
in the Farrar league. Hung up the
boots the year before we came to
Renmark and played a few in the B’s
for Renmark the next year. Plenty of
good fun and good friends along the
way!
UNDER 13’s
UNDER 15’s
JOKE OF THE DAY!
Ginge is at a nightclub. His bowels start to grumble and can feel a huge fart coming on.
He heads for the toilets, but there is a line of people already waiting. He is getting
desperate and would be very embarrassed if other people heard him passing wind. Then
he notices Tracy with her poodle, and thinks "if I sit near her dog and fart, people will
think the dog did it".
He races over near the dog, and lets out a beauty.
Tracy yells "Rover!!".
Ginge thinks "Yes...this is working!", and lets out another fart.
Tracy repeats "ROVER!!!!".
Ginge thinks "What an idea, no one will know it was me," and lets out another fart.
Then Tracy screams "ROVER!!!!!! Come here before he craps on you!"